We have recently recapped the awful performances of baseball and college football pundits—both groups whiffed entirely on either of the championship game participants. Did the NFL pundits do any better with their preseason predictions? We tracked 63 "experts" from CBS, ESPN, NFL.com, and Sports Illustrated.

First, here were the aggregate picks for Conference and Super Bowl winners.

AFC

NFC

Super Bowl

Broncos: 31

Seahawks: 24

Seahawks: 16

Patriots: 11

49ers: 18

49ers: 14

Texans: 10

Falcons: 13

Broncos: 13

Bengals: 10

Packers: 7

Falcons: 7

Colts: 1

Saints: 1

Packers: 7

Patriots: 4

Bengals: 1

Texans: 1

The group did quite well this season, with 49% of the pundits picking the Broncos to win the AFC (Vegas pegged their odds at 33%) and 38% selecting the Seahawks in the NFC (Vegas = 17%).Now here are the individual selections. 13 of the 63 pundits picked both the Broncos and Seahawks to make the Super Bowl, including Jim Trotter of SI.com, who has been the best preseason prognosticator of the group since we started tracking them (he was one of two to predict the Harbaugh Bowl last year). Another 16 picked either the Broncos or Seahawks to win it all.

Pundit

Network

AFC

NFC

Super Bowl

Austin Murphy

SI

DEN

SEA

DEN

Ben Goessling

ESPN

DEN

SEA

DEN

Bill Barnwell

ESPN

DEN

SEA

SEA

Chris Burke

SI

DEN

SEA

SEA

Elliot Harrison

NFL

DEN

SEA

SEA

James Walker

ESPN

DEN

SEA

SEA

Jim Trotter

SI

DEN

SEA

DEN

Judy Battista

NFL

DEN

SEA

SEA

Nick Wagoner

ESPN

DEN

SEA

SEA

Pat Kirwan

CBS

DEN

SEA

DEN

Rich Cimini

ESPN

DEN

SEA

SEA

Rick Reilly

ESPN

DEN

SEA

DEN

Rob Demovsky

ESPN

DEN

SEA

DEN

Adam Schefter

ESPN

NE

SEA

SEA

Bill Simmons

ESPN

NE

SEA

SEA

Kimberly Jones

NFL

DEN

SF

DEN

Mike Wells

ESPN

DEN

SF

DEN

Ryan Wilson

CBS

NE

SEA

SEA

Todd Archer

ESPN

DEN

SF

DEN

Gil Brandt

NFL

CIN

SEA

SEA

Jason La Canfora

CBS

CIN

SEA

SEA

John Clayton

ESPN

DEN

ATL

DEN

Josh Katzowitz

CBS

DEN

ATL

DEN

KC Joyner

ESPN

DEN

ATL

DEN

Michael C. Wright

ESPN

HOU

SEA

SEA

Mike Sando

ESPN

HOU

SEA

SEA

Mike Silver

NFL

CIN

SEA

SEA

Scott Brown

ESPN

DEN

NO

DEN

Terry Blount

ESPN

HOU

SEA

SEA

Bucky Brooks

NFL

DEN

SF

SF

Ian Rapoport

NFL

DEN

SF

SF

Jeff Legwold

ESPN

DEN

SF

SF

Jeffri Chadiha

ESPN

DEN

SF

SF

Paul Kuharsky

ESPN

DEN

SF

SF

Peter King

SI

NE

SEA

NE

Phil Sheridan

ESPN

NE

SEA

NE

Ashley Fox

ESPN

DEN

ATL

ATL

David Fleming

ESPN

DEN

GB

GB

Jamison Hensley

ESPN

DEN

ATL

ATL

Jeff Darlington

NFL

DEN

ATL

ATL

John Keim

ESPN

DEN

GB

GB

Pat Yasinskas

ESPN

DEN

ATL

ATL

Adam Schein

NFL

HOU

ATL

ATL

Adam Teicher

ESPN

HOU

SF

HOU

Albert Breer

NFL

CIN

SF

SF

Ben Eagle

SI

HOU

GB

GB

Bill Williamson

ESPN

CIN

SF

SF

Dan Graziano

ESPN

HOU

ATL

ATL

Daniel Jeremiah

NFL

NE

ATL

NE

David Newton

ESPN

CIN

SF

SF

Don Banks

SI

CIN

GB

GB

Doug Farrar

SI

HOU

GB

GB

John Breech

CBS

CIN

SF

SF

Kevin Seifert

ESPN

HOU

SF

SF

Matt Williamson

ESPN

NE

GB

GB

Michael DiRocco

ESPN

NE

SF

SF

Mike Reiss

ESPN

NE

SF

SF

Mike Rodak

ESPN

NE

SF

SF

Pete Prisco

CBS

CIN

ATL

CIN

Seth Wickersham

ESPN

IND

ATL

ATL

Tania Ganguli

ESPN

HOU

SF

SF

Tom Mantzouranis

SI

CIN

GB

GB

Will Brinson

CBS

NE

ATL

NE

We will update the full preseason rankings (2009-13) after the Super Bowl. For those new to our site, PunditTracker levels the playing field by allowing users to compete with the 'experts'. If you'd like to make your own Super Bowl pick — as well as several prop bets — head over to our Sports section and use the 'Vote Now' button to make your picks. As with the NFL 'experts', we will hold you accountable after the game!

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